Sex @ SXSWi Interview #1 is Maria Diaz. Maria is a freelance writer living in San Francisco. She writes for bitchbuzz and is a television writer for b5media. Most of her blogging is currently confined to Tumblr. Here she gets into her panel, “A History of Growing Up Online,” so it is not oversharing to [...]
“That take-on-the-world morning, I was having coffee with Steven Levy, then of Newsweek, now of Wired, who challenged this whole idea of whether this “Sarah Lacy” brand was actually translating into things that mattered, like book sales, money, something real and tangible, or whether it was a just smokescreen of hype.” - Sarah Lacy
“it’s really [...]
The sharp folks at Channel 4 has been running The Sex Education Show since September. Those of us outside the UK can watch on YouTube or on their website, but we can’t share the sex ed as freely as we ought to be able to: no embedding. Come on! This is the kind [...]
“Untitled (We won’t be our own best enemy),” Barbara Kruger
It’s one thing to get laid off from a writing gig: it’s another thing to watch that layoff turn up in a trend piece. And another. And another. My editor and I used to joke, it takes three to make a trend, but two in a [...]
Stigma, said sexuality & kink educator Graydancer, of one of the first sex podcasts, Ropecast, checking in from BlogWorldExpo.
Graydancer’s sum-up details how conversations he struck up with other bloggers were shyly broken off, how one of his models — previously down to be tied up for a performance at a conference party — declined at [...]
(img: Your author, right now, writing this, predictably at a wifi cafe in San Francisco. Without makeup, except for my eyebrows, which I fill out with a MAC pencil. I haven’t done anything with my hair yet today, either. Shot quick on my iSight. This is the fourth shot I took. [...]
Susannah Breslin (Reverse Cowgirl):
“Something more than one more portal to free porno. Something other than one girl’s Dear Diary of zipless fucks. Something without pseudonymous erotica, bad porn ads, and half-naked self-portraits via cellphones…
Something post-feminist and politically incorrect, unabashed and unashamed, what girls talk about where boys aren’t.”
Sex and more sex: Slate does a special sex issue, which I’m taking with my tea. Start with their Sex Ed 2.0 video, proof positive that sex video online would come to a grinding halt without the Prelinger Archive to sample “hygiene” films from.
What’s completely endearing is the prospect of, like the snip of [...]
The challenge with the democratization of media-making has been just that: you know, democratization, getting voices and stories from outside the social media saturated echo chamber (San Francisco, New York, hello) out into the Great World Beyond. Which might be why finding a show like The Midwest Teen Sex Show is still shocking:
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Nobody’s famous!, is really all the headline ought to have read in the Times (UK)’s latest technology bit on internet celebrity. Of course, we know that the virtue in having total, always-on infamy available to everyone (oh, except those pesky people still living without highspeed web access or GPRS, or cameras, or [...]